 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...innocently and as unhurtfally as at ourselves." The picture did not please Swift at all. He replied: "I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses...in all my labours is to vex the world, rather than to divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...innocently and as unhurtf ully as at ourselves. " The picture did not please Swift at all. He replied: "I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses...in all my labours is to vex the world, rather than to divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1903 - 254 pages
...(beside ditching) in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my travels in four parts complete, newly augmented and intended for the press, when the...shall be found brave enough to venture his ears." This is what Swift says in a letter written to Pope, and thus it will be seen that there could have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...Works, xvi. 378. He was finishing it in the autumn of 1725. On Sept. 29 of that year he wrote : — ' The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather 1 In the text 196. The average given of the four shows that it should be 96. than divert it." Works,... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 312 pages
...being by Merlin armed, and by Timon thoroughly instructed, he went to seeke her forth in Faery land. " THE CHIEF END I PROPOSE TO MYSELF IN ALL MY LABOURS, is TO VEX THE WORLD " Dean Swift to Alexander Pope September 29, 1725. I have employed my time (besides ditching) in finishing,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 pages
...ditching, in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my T^ra.yelsJ. in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended for the press, when...them, or rather when a printer shall be found brave enpugh^tq venture his ears. I like the scheme of our meeting after" ctTstresses and dispersions; but... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 136 pages
...in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my Travels [Gulliver's] in four parts complete, newly augmented and intended for the press when the...dispersions. But the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors, is to vex the world, rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting... | |
 | 1920 - 912 pages
...shape till after 1720. The motive of the book is thus expressed in a letter to Pope, 29 Sept. 1725: "I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief aim I propose to myself in all my labours is, to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could... | |
 | 1920 - 890 pages
...shape till after 1720. The motive of the book is thus expressed in a letter to Pope, 29 Sept. 1725: al like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions, but the chief aim I propose to myself in all my labours is, to vex the world rather than divert it, and if I could... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 pages
...ditching, in finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my Travels, in four parts complete, newly augmented, and intended for the press, when...printer shall be found brave enough to venture his ears ; " and Arbuthnot, who saw this letter, writes back that he would set the letters himself, rather than... | |
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I like the scheme of our meeting after distresses and dispersions ; but the chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world rather than divert it ; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would... 
